On July 6, 2013, The Bad Seed, The Baby and Children of the Damned were screened as a triple-feature on TCM Underground. Here's some art inspired by all three films!
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The Big Cube is THE BAD SHOCKER! Wait, getting my campy taglines mixed up here ... anyway, here The Big Cube is startingon TCM in 10 minutes!
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On June 18, 1958, The Bad Seed debuted in Argentina. Here’s a portrait of Patty McCormack!
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Love that film! Off to dream of that incessant piano and barbecued gardener! See you down the schedule cult film fans!
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SPOILERS: In the novel and play versions of The Bad Seed, Christine dies and Rhoda survives, which is obviously not the case in the film. The lightning strike ending was devised to keep in line with Hays Code stipulations that didn’t allow criminals to go unpunished. So … this movie ends with an 8-year-old girl getting electrocuted because of moral dignity …
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#ExplainAFilmPlotBadly -- Multiple people die in the aftermath of a spiteful school teacher purposefully gives a penmanship medal to a student who didn’t deserve it.
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Three Fingered Joe voice: You see, Leroy didn't make sure to keep all flammable materials on the work site away from sociopathic tweens. With his ho-hum attitude he was shaking hands with danger...
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Here’s a couple of Patty McCormack pieces that I’ve drawn inspired by The Bad Seed in the past!
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Similar to Nero, Rhoda played piano as the cellar burned ...
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The Bad Seed would later inspire an early 90s film where a young Macaulay Culkin would play a similar sociopathic preteen. One can apply that to either The Good Son or Home Alone.
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Mrs. Daigle:"PLAY FREEBIRD!"
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Leroy spends his time slacking when he should be mowing the lawn, sleeps in a crawlspace by the furnace, and spends his time chiding a young girl about being caught and electrocuted. How is he a character in a 1950s Warner Brothers movie, instead of in some fringe Lars Von Trier or Tod Solondz indie film!?
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Really? … Baskets full of kisses and hugs as an exchange rate for goods and services … IN THIS ECONOMY!?!?
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“And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for that meddling Leroy!”
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Well, if it’s any consolation to Christine, she can’t be descended from TOO disturbing of a criminal … I mean, not with the Hays Code in effect and all …
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I feel like if they had just watched a few Sid Davis classroom films about proper behavior at school picnics and sportsmanship, all of this could have been prevented...
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That’s a wrap! Here’s my new Patty McCormick fan art for this TCM presentation of The Bad Seed!
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Or as Mr. Lahey from Trailer Park Boys would put it, "S*** seeds, s*** weeds ..."
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"Writing? She can’t even spell!"

Gee ... thanks dad ...
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Patty McCormack would play First Lady Pat Nixon in Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon (2008) which I assume was about David Frost’s series of interviews with psychobilly / cowpunk musician Mojo Nixon, or something …
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